Can I get a "Hell yeah"?!!!

15+ Year Member

I'm pretty much speechless right now, not to mention voiceless from all the screaming I have been doing but I just got into UIC!!!!!!!!!

It's over, the wait is over, I am relieved, I am shocked, I am, well, a lot of things right now and sober isn't one of them. I am a second time applicant and to get an acceptance this time around so early makes this extra special. First time applicants believe me it is not the end of the world if you don't get in the first time around. If you want it bad enough you can do it!!!

Thank you to everyone on here for all the help and advice I have been gleaning from these pages over the past couple years. Apparently it has all paid off--even the threads about hunter green suits.

Oh yeah and one more thing, the MCAT can kiss my accepted ass now! I won't be seeing it ever again!!!

7+ Year Member

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." Jack Kerouac

"I want the windows and doors of my house to be wide open. I want the cultures of all lands to blow freely around my house, but I refuse to be blown off my feet by any of them." Gandhi

"well behaved women rarely make history"

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10+ Year Member

"But man was not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
--John Donne

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15+ Year Member

Is UIC my first choice? Well I'm just so happy to have gotten in that this question is difficult to answer. UIC was one of my top choices and I'll leave it at that for now. I haven't gotten any other interviews so as the saying goes beggars can't be choosers. I'm just happy to know that I will be going somewhere this coming august and that I'm finally out of limbo.

Which campus? I want the chicago campus. You get a preference card to send in with your acceptance forms and if you get it in early enough you can get the campus of your choice. I wouldn't mind Urbana though since it was my undergrad. Hopefully I'll stay in Chicago.

Moderator Emeritus10+ Year Member

What a great thread to come back to from my NYC trip. you deserve it man, live it up

"I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm," to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have......

....Don't give up, don't ever give up...."

Jim Valvano, March 4 1993

?I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.? ?Ezra Cornell
Weill Medical College of Cornell University Class of 2007. w00t w00t!!!

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